Spring Break
Worth the Drive: Sara Evans
MANDY RODGERS
Issue date: 2/1/07 Section: Out & About
THE ARENA AT GWINNETT CENTER
Country singer Sara Evans hit headlines with her very public divorce last year, forcing her to pull out of ABC's successful television show, "Dancing with the Stars."
Now she's hitting the stage, touring and promoting her latest album, "Real Fine Place."
Evans is currently the reigning Top Female Vocalist of the Academy of Country Music, and she's coming to the The Arena at Gwinnett Center 7:30 p.m. tonight.
"If you look at the demographics for country music fans, most live and work outside of Downtown Atlanta. With all of our lives getting busier, most people would rather have a short drive from their home and not feel rushed to attend a show," said Chris Hendley, the Marketing and Media Advisor for the Arena.
"Country music fans are typically laid back, and we like to think that we are, too."
Evans' first album 1997 is "Three Chords and the Truth" garnered much critical praise, but it never found an audience.
It wasn't until Evans' 1998 duet with Vince Gill, "No Place That Far," that she received her first number one single and gold album of the same name.
Since then, Evans has found success with such popular singles as "Born to Fly," "Suds in the Bucket" and most recently, "A Real Fine Place to Start."
"I am a huge country music fan, so I am biased toward it," said Courtney Andrews, an advertising and spanish major who has been a fan of Evans since 1997.
"But I enjoy her music because the songs are always really good and because her voice is not augmented in any way with technology. She is real."
After touring with Brad Paisley, Sugarland and Brooks and Dunn, Evans launched her current headlining tour, which continues traveling throughout the country until August. In between shows, Evans also will make appearances on Kenny Chesney's upcoming tour, the Flip Flop Summer 2007 Tour.
Evans has become so established in the country music world that she already has a greatest hits album scheduled for release later in the year.
Country singer Sara Evans hit headlines with her very public divorce last year, forcing her to pull out of ABC's successful television show, "Dancing with the Stars."
Now she's hitting the stage, touring and promoting her latest album, "Real Fine Place."
Evans is currently the reigning Top Female Vocalist of the Academy of Country Music, and she's coming to the The Arena at Gwinnett Center 7:30 p.m. tonight.
"If you look at the demographics for country music fans, most live and work outside of Downtown Atlanta. With all of our lives getting busier, most people would rather have a short drive from their home and not feel rushed to attend a show," said Chris Hendley, the Marketing and Media Advisor for the Arena.
"Country music fans are typically laid back, and we like to think that we are, too."
Evans' first album 1997 is "Three Chords and the Truth" garnered much critical praise, but it never found an audience.
It wasn't until Evans' 1998 duet with Vince Gill, "No Place That Far," that she received her first number one single and gold album of the same name.
Since then, Evans has found success with such popular singles as "Born to Fly," "Suds in the Bucket" and most recently, "A Real Fine Place to Start."
"I am a huge country music fan, so I am biased toward it," said Courtney Andrews, an advertising and spanish major who has been a fan of Evans since 1997.
"But I enjoy her music because the songs are always really good and because her voice is not augmented in any way with technology. She is real."
After touring with Brad Paisley, Sugarland and Brooks and Dunn, Evans launched her current headlining tour, which continues traveling throughout the country until August. In between shows, Evans also will make appearances on Kenny Chesney's upcoming tour, the Flip Flop Summer 2007 Tour.
Evans has become so established in the country music world that she already has a greatest hits album scheduled for release later in the year.
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